How To Draw Hip Roof

Most gabled roofs have eaves so you probably need to create them for your building.

How to draw hip roof.

Select build roof roof planeand click and drag a baseline across the length of a wall. The preview window displays a dimensioned plan view of the hip roof. Use the protractor tool to create an angled guide at the corner of your roof. This dialog also serves as the default.

To create a hip roof select build wall straight exterior wall from the menu and draw four connecting walls to form an enclosed area. Release the mouse button and move your cursor in the upwards direction. That is where the seat cut should be made. To start drawing in the hipped roof draw lines at 45 degree angles from all the points on the roof as shown in blue.

Use the line tool to draw a vertical edge from. Then measure down that plumb cut the same distance as the common rafter s height above plate. On the roofpanel of the build. Mark the length of the hip measuring down from the longest point of the plumb cut.

Create a roof overhang. The internal roof lines are called valleys and the external roof lines are the hips as shown. Select build roof build roof from the menu to open the build roofdialog. Select hip from the roof type dropdown list or click on the corresponding button on the toolbar to calculate a hip roof.

We will determine there length in the next step. Then mark another plumb cut 25mm over which denotes where the hip would touch the wall plate if it wasn t for the gap.